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next to them, and the net yielding to 

 the pressure of the props on the further 

 side, fell inwards upon the struggling 

 beast, which was at once speared. 



On one occasion we took out the nets 

 with the intention of netting a tiger 

 that had killed several cows in the 

 neighbourhood ; but though we spent 

 the whole day till four in the afternoon, 

 in beating all the most likely coverts, 

 we saw nothing of the tiger, and only 

 brought home a spotted deer. I left 

 Honama and the rest on their way 

 home, and rode back to Belikeri. I had 

 scarcely bathed and eaten, when a 

 breathless shikari rushed up to the 

 house to say the tiger was found in 

 a patch of scrub jungle close to 

 Honama's village, where he had killed 



